Tag Archives: Dean Skelos

November 16, 2010Comments Off on NY Senate GOP’s top strategist to retire

The New York Senate Republicans’ combative and shrewd strategist, John McArdle, announced his retirement Monday just as the GOP hopes to regain the chamber’s majority. McArdle rose through the ranks of the Senate’s Republican conference during his 29-year career, directing ...

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch said Wednesday that state Senate leader John Sampson has joined his “New York Uprising” government reform movement. “I believe it is of enormous importance and I welcome him,” Koch, a Democrat, told The ...

George Sava wants to say school’s out for The Dean. As in State Senator Dean Skelos R-Rockville Centre, minority leader of the senate. Sava, a Woodmere attorney, has been tapped by the Nassau County Democrats to take on Skelos in ...

The New York senator who set off a debilitating coup in the chamber a year ago said Tuesday he is willing to vote against any more emergency spending bills even though that could likely force a shutdown of state government. ...

One year ago, New York’s Senate, the senior house steeped in gilded tradition since 1777, erupted into the chaos of a coup. The continuing fallout from June 8, 2009, includes a bitter partisanship that has contributed to today’s late state ...

April 29, 2010Comments Off on Friction over race continues among NY senators

Republicans in New York’s Senate and some Democrats are “white supremacists” angry that the chamber is now run by “African-Americans and Latinos and women and gays,” a Democratic Brooklyn senator said Wednesday. “You have these … long-term white supremacists … ...

Richard Nixon son in law and Southampton resident Ed Cox is poised to become the next leader of the state Republican party after his rival, Henry Wojtaszek, bailed on his long shot bid to defeat him. Wojtaszek, Niagara County’s COP ...

An Albany restaurant critic is down on state Sen. Dean Skelos’ taste in food. According to this post on politickerny.com, Skelos spends a lot of time – and dough – at Amo La Bella, an Italian restaurant near Albany’s indoor ...

One day after a Supreme Court justice in Mineola blocked Richard Ravitch’s appointment as lieutenant governor, a state Appellate Court judge in Brooklyn put a stay on the order. The office of Gov. David Paterson released this statement following the ...

The wound is still fresh so it’s hard to tell what will actually happen in late 2010, but 62 percent of voters said they will remember the Senate fight when they go to the voting booth next year, according to ...